If you could only have one book...

1922 first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses. One of the 1000 original editions on handmade paper.

I can buy one now for $75,000 lol

 

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Note 1: Valid point, I still refer to Wayne Miller's Morgan and Peace Dollar book.

Note 2: Don't take the comment so seriously. I was making, tongue-in-cheek, what I thought was an obvious point: one man's fiction is another man's non-fiction.

 

Without promoting religious books, I've read almost all of Louis L'amour's books for fiction. I love to read almost all books that can help me understand coins and coin collecting. Great topic.

 

Another almost nonsense thread... Yes? The OP knew the answer prior I would surmise...

 

Yes I am Carnac the magnificent and can predict what everyone else's choice of reading material would be.

I truly don't care if your choice is the Bible or the Koran, I just don't want to get into a discussion on whether those are fiction or non fiction.

 

What a closed mind! I now have several titles of books that I can read or re-read as the case may be. The Mega Red might be the obvious choose for coins but a couple of folks have recommended some additional titles on that front as well.

 

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is a good one.

 

A Gutenberg Bible is one of the only things left in Fort Knox from what I understand, the last time it was audited was during the Nixon administration and was reported in the past several years to be empty of gold by no less than the people employed there. I love the tangents this site goes off on.

 

I would want Breen's book or the Red Book. Tough choice.

 

This is the book that’s made me the most money. I’ve owned and sold so many pieces that are identical or of the same shop etc. if they ever did an updated version I’d probably have had 20+ things that would be in there. And it’s a wicked expensive book to buy if you can even find it.

 

Here we go:
http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm
I hope your Latin is not too rusty like mine ;-)

 

Still my favorite fiction book...

 

Very high on my list too

 

X2 thanks.

 

Churchill's biography, "The Last Lion" the last volume, 1940 to 1965. Fascinating. Could read it a dozen times and learn something new every time I'm sure. And non-fiction (mostly anyway)

coins - I might choose "The Fantastic 1804 Dollar" because it includes wonderful descriptions about how the coin(s) were made.